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Three popular Chinese online video services have been temporarily shut down. They will likely reappear with "beefed-up oversight":
Beijing has shut down online video services of three popular Chinese media sites in a swift action that unleashed financial shockwaves and posed a firm warning to the country's online video industry: clean up, or close down.
China's internet shares tumbled after news of the unusually harsh clamp down spread, with Weibo Corp's down 6.1 percent, while SINA Corp, which has a stake in Weibo, fell 4.8 percent. That amounted to a combined $1.3 billion knock to the market value of both companies.
The Twitter-like service Sina Weibo, popular online video site ACFUN and news portal iFeng.com will have to stop video streaming services that violate the country's regulations, the TV and film watchdog said on Thursday.
"This will provide a clean and clear Internet space for the wide number of online users," the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said in a brief statement on its website.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:26AM (1 child)
Yes, and it's very unfortunate to see that attitude spreading around the globe. Too much submissiveness in this world.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:45AM
The vast majority did not fight in the American Revolution. If historians are to be believed, then something like 70% of the population weren't in favor of warring against England.
It isn't spreading. We have always had a majority that accepts oppression. Popular uprisings are usually anything but. They are usually a vocal minority, though they may get greater participation once it looks like they have a chance of ending the oppression.
At that point, of course, someone else usually steps in and also oppresses. A beautiful example of this was the French Revolution. After killing the wealthy that they didn't like, they kept on killing for trivialities. And, of course, this led to one Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte. Between those two events, they killed the hell out of each other. They'd kill you for not being pious enough - and that wasn't even based on religion.
Nah, they tossed religion to the curb, made up new days of the week, enforced social norms, and just kept on killing each other. They basically went on oppressing each other, pretty much immediately, except they were now killing more people than the royal families ever did.
We are not that smart, as species. We aren't that courageous, either. This isn't new. It is how it has always been and how it will probably always be.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."